http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/data+digitization PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/2469 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/2469 <p>By Julie Linden and Anne Green at Yale.&nbsp;</p><p>Digitization has the potential to transform scholarly use of data found in print statistical publications. While presenting images of statistical tables in a digital library environment may be desirable, the full potential of such material can be realized only if the resulting digital objects are easy to search and manipulate and are accompanied by sufficient metadata to support extraction of numbers from tables and comparison of numbers across tables.</p>